Slightly less of a favorite to win those Buffalo Sabres tickets after a day filled with multiple players making multiple entries, Bob Keihl is now a good bet to bag big, getting it up over 70,000 heading into the late levels.
"I've made a bunch of bad calls and got lucky on the river," he said. "Four or five bad calls."
One included getting it in four ways with the , flopping a pair and making trip eights on the river.
With registration and re-entry closed, this fifth of six 2015 Seneca Fall Poker Classic $100 No-Limit Hold'em Day 1 flights drew 130 entries, making it the biggest morning flight yet.
That brings the total entries up to 433 with one flight to come. In order to meet the $50,000 prize pool guarantee, the event needs to draw a total of 625 entries.
That means they will need to draw 192 in tonight's 6 p.m. flight to get there — A reachable number as Wednesday's night flight is expected to be the biggest yet.
Local rounder Bob Koerntgen has emerged as a threat to Mike Rellinger's ever-tenuous chip lead heading into the second break.
He picked up kings and got it all in three ways. Koerntgen couldn't help but smile a little when he saw both opponents had weak aces. He faded their two outer to push up over 70,000.
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, flopping a pair and making trip eights on the river.
